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Breaking: Jon Favreau "Desiccated"

Former bikini model Irina Krupnik is suing NBC Universal over the scene in Couples Retreat where Jon Favreau—playing what Krupnik’s suit refers to as both an "overweight, unhappily married male character" and a "much older, desiccated character"—makes use of her image during a bout of furtive self-pleasuring. ("Desiccated" means "extremely dry"—those "Do Not Eat" packets that keep new sneakers from getting moist contain dessicants—so we’re not sure exactly what this means; presumably the implication is that having a guy played by grody ol’ Jon Favreau put your image on his autoerotic vision-board is so much more mentally scarring than being masturbated to by, say, George Clooney, difficult though grodiness is to prove in court.)

Krupnik, now a makeup artist living in Manhattan, signed a general release when the photo was taken, but says, perhaps not surprisingly, that she never intended to have it turn up in a spank-gag context; Tom Mullaney, Krupnik’s lawyer, suggests that the studio should perhaps have substituted the image of somebody who didn’t mind. "Certainly, NBC Universal has the resources to do that," he told the New York Post. And he’s right. We can think of one NBCU star in particular who’s always up for an innovative cross-platform promotional opportunity...